Oct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her order
Today in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
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Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Oct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary
Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters Death
We go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
Pearl of Great Price
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting
1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 24 The Venerable Bede
Today in the year 654 the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church opened. It was convened in Hertford, by Theodore of Tarsus,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Sep 20 Christianity in Korea
Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 20, 2021
- 5 min
Sep 11 Bartolome de la Casas
Today in the Spanish priest and fierce defender of indigenous peoples Bartolome de la casas ended his term as bishop of Chiapas in...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 8 Worshipping God through discovering Genes
Today in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 8, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of Christ
Today in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...
Pearl of Great Price
- Sep 2, 2021
- 4 min
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement
Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 29, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 27 The first businessman to be declared a saint?
Today it's 1962 and we travel to Argentina where Enrique Ernesto Shaw, the Founder of the Christian Association of Business Executives...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of Taizé
Today we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 27, 2021
- 3 min
August 20 Bultmann and Demythologisation
Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 19 The Moabite Stone & the Exodus
Its 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous
Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 6, 2021
- 4 min
Aug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission
Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...
Pearl of Great Price
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Aug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold
Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...
Pearl of Great Price
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
July 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of Israel
Today an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...